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Degenerate Lyre is a poetry workshop community. The workshop format works best in small groups of 10 to 12 people. As such, this community is closed. The moderator(s) of this community will periodically update the number of open slots. If you wish to be considered for a slot, please submit a sample of your writing to jennifer @ jennifer-armentrout dot com.

We will offer weekly prompts to help stimulate creativity, though posted poems need not be in response to these prompts.

Members are expected to post poems weekly for review, and to critique other members' poems. Critiques will be honest and not always sugar-coated. If you cannot take criticism this is not the place for you. We are striving to better ourselves as writers, and that goal can only be reached through giving and receiving honest criticism.

Each month there will be a member spotlight, where a member may post up to three poems for critique. During the week of the monthly spotlight, there will be no weekly prompt. Members who are featured and participate in the member spotlight can post a writing challenge to other members and will get a small prize.

Co-Moderators:

Jennifer Armentrout (mehinda) and Catherynne Valente (catvalente)

Catherynne is the author of Music of a Proto-Suicide